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The 3.58-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) was the first in the world to have a computer-controled mirror ans ESO 3.6-m telescope.

The ESO Science Newsletter is intended to keep the community informed about current activities of interest at ESO. The newsletter appears roughly every two to three months or whenever important news ...

The telescope structure is an alt-az mount (see Figure 1) and it is divided into two main parts: the Azimuth Structure and the Altitude Structure. The main structure, including the hosted units and ...

The prime objective of the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) instrument for the VLT is the discovery and study of new extra-solar giant planets orbiting nearby stars by ...

The web application SkyCalc provides a web interface to obtain models of transmission and radiance spectra in physical units, calculated on ESO servers with this model for configurable observation ...

Proposals for observing time on all facilities of the La Silla Paranal Observatory (VLT/I, NTT, 3.6m) must be submitted using the p1 web system: The new p1 user interface collects the same information ...

Several teams provide support in regard to ESO's telescopes and instruments, e.g. support for observing proposal preparation and submission, observation scheduling, data flow operation, information ...

Institute codes can be found using the following pull-down menus. First look up the country corresponding to the affiliation of your Co-I(s) and then find the codes corresponding to your Co-I(s) ...

The complete adapter-rotator units comprise two major subsystems:the opto-mechanical part and the control system. The Opto-Mechanicalpart consists of five main sub-components: The Large Structure The ...

HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope is dedicated to the discovery of extrasolar planets. It is a fibre-fed high resolution echelle spectrograph.